A group of nationalist-radical group ‘Right Sector’
broke into a City Council meeting where members of the Party of
Regions were sitting in the town of Vasilkov, outside the
Ukrainian capital, Kiev.

Armed members of the group entered, hinting that members of the
Party of Regions should “voluntarily” resign. This was
after admitting that they just invaded another local meeting,
where they had successfully got other elected members of the
Party of Regions to resign. The members replied that they had
already done so that morning.

The radical group was led by far-right activist Igor Mosiychuk,
who was sentenced to six years in prison in January for planning
to blow up Lenin’s monument in the town of Borispol. He is also
one of the three suspects in the ‘Vasilkov’s terrorists’
case.

Mosiychuk was freed from jail on February 24 based on Ukraine’s
parliament newly-approved decree to release political prisoners.

The Right Sector movement, a combination of several far-right
groups, was formed in November 2013 soon after the
anti-government protests in Ukraine began. Their leader is
Dmitry Yarosh. Members of the radical
movement were active in the events leading to the ouster of
President Viktor Yanukovich.

Released 'political prisoner' threatens to send armed
nationalists to Crimea

While the radicals in the main try to remain unrecognized, hiding
their faces behind masks, Igor Mosiychuk - aka Moisha – does not
bother to conceal his identity. He poses himself as a staunch
nationalist and a leader of the Patriots of Ukraine, one of few
groups aligned with the Right Sector, in the city of Vasilkov.

Until his arrest in August 2011 – along with Sergey Bevz and
Vladimir Shpara - he was a member of Vasilkov town council and
editor-in-chief of the local newspaper.

In this video from 2010 found on Youtube, he is seen messing
around with guns to the sound track of a famous cartoon about
gangsters.

Locals recall that since the Patriots of Ukraine appeared in the
city on the eve of the elections to the town council, everything
changed for the worse, media reports claimed. The “Patriots”
allegedly put heavy pressure, including threats and physical
violence, on other candidates demanding that they withdraw from
the elections. The video below shows Mosiychuk and his colleague
running over a woman in their car, amid chaotic scenes of a crowd
protesting election results, which they say were falsified.

After his release from jail, Moisha (always wearing a t-shirt
with Wolfsangel, the neo-Nazi sign used by some SS divisions
during World War II) is often seen in Vasilkov, accompanied by
his heavily armed fellow nationalists.

Right after being granted freedom “as a political
prisoner”, Moisha continued his “political
activity.” He appeared on Ukrainian TV sharing his group’s
ideology and threatening “harsh punishment” to those who
try to split Ukraine.

He vowed to send the so-called “trains of friendship” to Crimea,
full of armed fighters, if there is a threat of separatism on the
part of the Autonomous republic.

"If the government is not able to do that then Right Sector
will create "the train of friendship". Wewill go to the
Crimea, just like in the 90th UNSO [a Ukrainian
far-right organization], when people, like these rats, were
running away, as a column of UNSO entered Sevastopol," he
said.